Quotes about Achievement

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

We grow small trying to be great.